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DHS hires Hamas-linked CAIR to train French counter-terrorism officials

Dec 16, 2016 4:16 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

CAIR-Florida issued a press release on December 8, giving details of the event, and posted numerous photos of the French delegation on its Facebook page. The training session was devoted to showing the French officials “how to effectively challenge violent extremist individuals of all backgrounds and prevent hate crimes, while protecting civil rights and challenging profiling and discrimination.”

The DHS is in the counterterrorism business with CAIR? It is an ominous case of the fox guarding the henhouse. The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) move to hire CAIR to train French officials is tantamount to a sabotage, intentionally or unintentionally.

CAIR was labeled an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-funding trial. Its links to Hama were established in that trial, the largest terrorism financing trial in the history of the United States: the Holy Land Foundation trial. CAIR was also declared to be terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.

A recent report exposed in a report how those who are entrusted with protecting us are instead allying with America’s worst enemies, who have now infiltrated the DHS:

As now-retired Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower Philip Haney has tried so hard to warn, because of the Great Purge throughout the ranks of U.S. national security agencies, officers like him were forbidden to pursue Islamic terror leads or learn or use accurate language to describe jihad or shariah as motivating ideologies for Islamic terror. In his new book, “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad,” Haney explains how the Muslim Brotherhood’s penetration of U.S. defenses and successful influence operations have effectively neutered U.S. law enforcement efforts against jihadis.

Those responsible for hiring CAIR to train French officials about counter-terrorism should be brought to justice for partnering with a terrorism-linked entity, and we may hope that they will be during the Trump administration.

“IPT EXCLUSIVE: DHS Hires CAIR to Train French Officials”, by Steven Emerson, IPT News, December 14, 2016:

The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) facilitated a training session last week for a French police delegation, in conjunction with the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Community Engagement Office in Tampa, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has confirmed with DHS officials and other agencies.

This session stands in contrast with the FBI’s 2009 policy not to engage with CAIR outside of criminal investigations due to questions about the Hamas ties of its top executives. An FBI official wrote that “until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.” That FBI policy toward CAIR remains in effect, and was publicly reaffirmed in 2013.

CAIR-Florida issued a press release Dec. 8 giving details of the event, and posted numerous photos of the French delegation on its Facebook page. The training session was devoted to showing the French officials “how to effectively challenge violent extremist individuals of all backgrounds and prevent hate crimes, while protecting civil rights and challenging profiling and discrimination,” the release said.

Several French counter-terror officials received this training, including a representative of France’s Ministry of the Interior and many police chiefs.

They presented Nezar Hamze, CAIR-Florida’s regional operations director, with a medallion bearing the French national colors and inscribed: “Public Safety Departmental Directorate at Bouches-du-Rhone / Discipline – Valor – Devotion.”

“We appreciated the opportunity to communicate how restricting liberty encourages hate crimes and violence and that preserving liberty and civil rights is key to preserving peace and security,” CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly said in the release.

This indicates that the thrust of this training was devoted to discouraging counter-terror activities within Muslim communities, which CAIR often has falsely represented as infringing upon the civil liberties of Muslims. CAIR officials repeatedly urge Muslim Americans not to cooperate with the FBI.

DHS and the State Department participated in this CAIR training of French officials despite the well-documented record of CAIR’s ties to terrorists. Internal Muslim Brotherhood records obtained by the FBI place CAIR and its founders at the core of a Brotherhood-created Hamas support network in the United States known as the Palestine Committee.

CAIR’s Powerful Ties

CAIR officials enjoyed close relations with the Obama administration despite the FBI’s evidence linking it to the Muslim Brotherhood and to Hamas. DHS/State Department coordination with CAIR is nothing new. The State Department sent CAIR officials abroad to conduct foreign outreach.

The State Department hosted CAIR officials in October 2015 to discuss Syria and “the need … to challenge [alleged] aggressive Israeli actions targeting the Al Aqsa mosque compound, one of the holiest sites in Islam.”

Top CAIR officials repeatedly received White House invitations and participated in White House conference calls. DHS collaborates with CAIR on numerous non-public projects, and funnels anti-terrorism funds allocated by Congress.

CAIR received a sub-grant of $70, 324 from DHS in 2015, records show.

Hassan Shibly: Terrorist Apologist

Considering Shibly’s statements that Islamist ideology has nothing to do with terrorism and the rash of jihadist attacks that have rocked France since January 2015, his involvement in the training should be cause for alarm.

In an April 21, 2013 interview with OnIslam, Shibly said that, “American political scientists have made it very clear that those who commit acts of terrorism have nothing to do with religion and are often motivated by political, not religious, reasons. Actually, such attacks can never be justified and truly are nothing more than the result of having a twisted and sick mind.”

In a June 2014 blog post, Shibly argued that the purported “FBI entrapment program targeting the Muslim community” was an example of tyranny that strayed away from the “great ideals of liberty, equality and justice.”

In his view, the FBI manufactures terrorists through sting operations such as that against Sami Osmakac, convicted in 2014 on charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and possession of a fully automatic firearm.

“I’m concerned that the government’s own tactics turned him into a greater threat than he could have been on his own,” Shibly told the Tampa Tribune in a June 3, 2014 article. “There’s no need to enable a Hollywood-style plot … Would Osmakac have had the ideas and the means to do this crime but for the government informant?”

Shibly also is helping a family sue the FBI, alleging an agent unjustly shot and killed a friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev after hours of questioning in his Orlando home in 2013.

Independent investigations, requested by CAIR, completed by the Justice Department and a Florida state attorney found that Ibragim Todashev, a “skilled mixed-martial arts fighter,” attacked the agent shortly after acknowledging involvement in a separate triple-murder case in Massachusetts. Todashev continued charging after being shot, prompting the agent to fire more.

Shibly rejected the findings, saying only Todashev could “contradict the government’s narrative,” but he was dead.

Kareem Shora: CAIR’s Ally at DHS

According to a source, Kareem Shora played a key role in organizing the French delegation’s CAIR training. Shora serves with the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) and a Community Liaison Council with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
He has a long record of denying the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. Last July, for example, Shora claimed that it was an “unfortunate reality” that Muslims were portrayed as “more vulnerable” to “potential recruitment to terrorist activities…including those represented by Daesh.” Instead of devising ways to counter this “unfortunate reality,” Shora said that the DHS was trying to “promote the notion” that Muslims were no more likely than anyone else to be recruited into terror organizations:

“It’s not because they’re Muslims. They represent nothing of Islam. Daesh represents nothing of Islam or a state for that matter, quote unquote. So I think our position, as U.S. government, is to advocate that point every opportunity we get. And from a Homeland Security perspective, in order to build a society that’s resilient to all threats, regardless of the nature of that threat, our job is to make sure that these communities don’t end up being categorized as being vulnerable, because they are in fact the ones most suffering as a result of those attacks.”

Shora helped leading Islamist figures attend DHS meetings, including Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and, Ingrid Mattson of the Islamic Society of North America, records obtained by the IPT through the Freedom of Information Act show…..

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  1. gravenimage says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    DHS hires Hamas-linked CAIR to train French counter-terrorism officials
    ……………………

    Fox, henhouse…

    What insanity.

    • cs says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 6:09 am

      Come on, the French deserve it, if they were serious they would go directly to the Shin Bet in Israel, as they are proven cucks they knocked Obama’s door.

  2. Peter says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    DHS – Department of Homeland Submission (to Islamic supremacism)

  3. Lynne says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    How did Obama get away with this? He put the American people in danger. Wasn’t there someone in the service who was able to contact the right authorities to explain this? I am a Canadian but feel that this could happen anywhere.

    • Veka Fitzfrancis says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 11:48 pm

      Trudeau is working very hard to turn you Canadians into proper dhimmi

      • Lynne says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 8:42 am

        You are so correct about Trudeau!

  4. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    “We appreciated the opportunity to communicate how restricting liberty encourages hate crimes and violence and that preserving liberty and civil rights is key to preserving peace and security,” CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly said in the release.

    Remind me again of how many criticism of islam CAIR deemed to be fair and grounded and how many critics of islam they have not tried to silence but agreed with their criticism?…

  5. Rey Ybarra says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    The politically IN-CORRECT BUFFOONS have not read Dave Gaubatz book Muslim Mafia!! There is no hope for these ignoramuses anymore! Thankfully, Americas Patriots have elected a new President who is putting in place a cabinet that will Drain The Swamp of these mindless appeasors!!!

  6. PRCS says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    “how to effectively challenge violent extremist individuals of all backgrounds”

    Yes, Nidal Malik Hasan was–without doubt–a “violent individual”.

    But, I’m confused.

    What, exactly, was the nature of his “extremism”?

    Surely, if someone were to ask the CAIR “reps” at these shindigs, they’d be obliged to explain that.

    Right?

    • common sense says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 8:48 pm

      Yup! Right! of course Shibly and CAIR play the mental disturbance card.

      • PRCS says

        Dec 16, 2016 at 9:06 pm

        Heh, heh.

    • honkingoose says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 6:48 am

      CAIR will tell you he misinterpreted the peaceful Qura’an, that serene bit about “striking terror” or maybe the “kill them wherever you find them” bit…so open to interpretation!

  7. common sense says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    “Haney explains how the Muslim Brotherhood’s penetration of U.S. defenses and successful influence operations have effectively neutered U.S. law enforcement efforts against jihadis.”

    How the hell is it that the FBI in this case comes in with the genius stroke and then Haney is ousted while Jeh Johnson and the DHS goes full retard under king Hussein? This bi-polar conflict within our national security agencies is unbelievable.
    Manchurian weirdos!

    • PRCS says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 9:10 pm

      As PE Trump persists in using the “radical Islamic terrorism” line, I remain skeptical that his administration will reverse that.

      Skeptical. Not convinced.

      To see, soon.

  8. Sam says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    How can this be? Almost like a fiction novel but true. This. Obama is such an idiot.

  9. annmarie says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 6:08 am

    America will have three Generals under the new administration.

    Gen. Flynn – National Security Advisor
    Gen James “Mad Dog” Mattis – Secretary of Defense
    Gen. John Kelley – Home Land Security

    Let’s see what will happen.

  10. Paul Ashley says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 8:09 am

    I fervently pray that the new administration will make all of of Obama’s Muslim m buddies personal non grata throughout our government.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 11:15 pm

      Me too.

  11. RickMT says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    President Trump will have his hands full deporting anyone connected to CAIR and jailing the Director of DHS and any of his weasels connected to this insanity.

  12. Bill Shackelford says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 12:38 am

    One more symptom of the futility of dealing with American quislings: Women, showing up at CAIR media functions, supposedly demonstrating how woman-friendly Islam is, but with, of course their hair covered. Unless we want our grandchildren to grow up believing women should be controlled by Islam, Americans must elect leaders with enough courage to say no to this sometimes cleverly disguised form of seventh century tyranny. To those (quislings) who loaned taxpayer money to CAIR – please note that we just did that with the election of Donald Trump.

  13. honkingoose says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 6:40 am

    Holy Mother! Profiling is an ESSENTIAL tool, unless you want your FBI to waste resources investigating HINDUS, BUDDHISTS, SIHKS or JAPANESE SHINTOISTS and LITTLE OLD LADIES possibly holding Whist Drives : you have to be honest and aim at the actual group who commit jihad ie, MUSLIMS and even more sensible is to look to the hate-filled book and teachings of islam and name and shame it as the cause of so many violent muslim atrocities.
    The last thing you need is to be ‘schooled’ by terror tied CAIR on how to “RESPECT” the filthy ideology.

  14. RL Robison says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    What a brilliant idea – put the fox in charge of the chicken house! Yup, that should work just fine…NOT.

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